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Object Number
04-46-50/64232
Display Title
Poisoned arrow feathered with leaf
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Arrow, wood shaft, wood barbed point with blackened resin, leaf fletching
Classification
- Arrow
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Pygmy
- Batwa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Zaire
Additional Geographic Terms
Upper Kasai tributary of the Congo; Wissmann Falls, South Africa, near region of
Materials
Reed, Resin, Leaf
Dimensions
Overall: 66.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm (26 3/16 x 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
04-46-50/64232; POISON
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